Most Wanted: Authorities have been close to nabbing Briggs

Apr. 8, 2013

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MANSFIELD – Brent Briggs is still on the loose.

“Task force officers have been one step behind Briggs a few times over the past month, and he knows we are looking for him,” Deputy U.S. Marshal Ross Wilber said. “Briggs is still in the Mansfield area and has been relying on family — and friends of family — to hide him out.

“We have interviewed several of his family members over the past few months, some more than once, but they are not cooperating. Apparently, Briggs is OK with investigators interrupting their lives for his mistakes and obvious lack of respect of the law.”

Briggs, 25, is wanted on a probation violation warrant. The original charges are felonious assault and discharge of a firearm into a habitat or school, both second-degree felonies. Briggs also has a failure-to-appear warrant out of Mansfield Municipal Court.

Briggs, who was featured as the March 18 “Most Wanted,” was released from prison in December 2011. He stopped showing up to re-entry court and reporting to his probation officer at the end of October.